The RightsTech & FinTech SaaS company enabling single-article-sales for the online news & media industry.

England, United Kingdom
Joined June 2019
FourZeroTwo.io is committed to supporting newspapers and publishers during the Pandemic. We can unlock new reader revenue and insights with our smart payment and rights management soltuion. Please get in touch to see how FourZeroTwo can help your publication. @C4CJ
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Create to earn opportunities could be synonymous with freelancer or stringer opportunities as digital publishers can become DAOs future.a16z.com/the-future-o… @FourZeroTwoTech & @TheFutureShaper are looking to prove this model is the next generation org, that returns value to knowledge
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Functioning more like open economies than closed organizations, DAOs will reward each individual contribution based on the value it provides, regardless of who it comes from. future.a16z.com/the-future-o… @FourZeroTwoTech vision of returning value back to knowledge - DAO at center
New cohort of media start-ups focus on paying readers, not page clicks - but the challenges are not for faint hearted. ft.com/content/5ab5b5b7-f4a2… @annaknicolaou @FourZeroTwoTech spotted this opportunity and looking to support it for digital publishers pivoting to revenue.
There are useful DIY guides on the web for those interested in having a go at NFTs out there. theverge.com/22809090/nft-cr… All those issues and challenges can be removed by choosing @FourZeroTwoTech - a B2B SaaS that lets the user pay in fiat and not have exposure to crypto
The climate wrecking craze can be rectified by changing the consensus protocol functionality. This is doable and what @FourZeroTwoTech are up to.. theguardian.com/commentisfre… The real worry's from don't look up - are the big tech, and social media & folks stupefied by consumerism.
The vision behind @TheFutureShaper and @FourZeroTwoTech was the inspiration from @Robert___Harris Fear Index's VIXAL 4 This could have been fantasy but over last 11 years DAO's have come to life checkout @benschecter future.a16z.com/the-future-o… Plenty to go but on the way
As if to confirm my previous post a certain Mr Cummings @Dominic2306 does the business again.. The challenge is that sometimes being right is not enough. dominiccummings.substack.com…
Like him or loathe him a certain Mr D Cummings @Dominic2306 is different gravy. Tapping into the likes of @danwwang and insight on China. dominiccummings.substack.com… @FourZeroTwoTech we are trying to do R&D for one of Dan's "sounding-clever industries"
The problem with this is that £176m is irrelevant when the combined annual revenue is £110b - the orders of magnitude are scary, but this is another step in the right direction get to a place the right digital business models are valued. theguardian.com/technology/2…
A very interesting take on paywalls at the Washington Post and New York Times. cjr.org/60th/build-the-wall-… Content matters. And you must find a way, in the brave new world of digitization, to make people pay for that content.
William Gibson and John Naughton have it pretty much down.. "The future’s already here – it’s just not evenly distributed." theguardian.com/commentisfre… @FourZeroTwoTech we are working hard to redistribute it more evenly for publishers, journalists & creators
UX cannot be too hard in 2022. A frictionless ability to engage, read, purchase, request and receive a refund must become the norm. niemanlab.org/2021/12/the-ne… Hidden problems such as price for a story and how it can change per reader must be brought into focus.
For many years now I've been saying that technology with the use of NFTS , web 3.0 and blockchain can be used as an accelerant of truth. niemanlab.org/2021/12/turnin… However slow, change is coming.
When one looks behind the veil to identify the defenders and battlers against big tech - you'll be hard pushed to do better than the team at Geradin Partners theplatformlaw.blog/2021/12/…
Whether its electric cars, sovereign wealth funds or even sustainable digital news business models one can rely on Norway to be leading the way. inma.org/blogs/ideas/post.cf… Here @FourZeroTwoTech & @TheFutureShaper we have been developing tech and models similar to help others.
More consolidation is on the cards for the major media players in 2022... that's the view of @pressgazette pressgazette.co.uk/future-of… The big will get bigger and the gulf between them and the rest will grow making it harder to cross.
The free ride that the big G, Meta and folks have enjoyed for the last 20 years is coming to an end. theguardian.com/commentisfre… And pleasingly web 3.0 will continue to grow in 2022. @FourZeroTwoTech have been doing #NFTs before the name was invented.
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Are we going to see less innovation and disruption following the Elizabeth Holmes trial verdict? theguardian.com/technology/2… Does this mean that incumbent enterprises will have it easier when facing disruption? No and No. Lawyers will benefit and funding terms will be tighter.